Add the JDBC Profiling capability

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Before you can start profiling and classifying a data source via Edge, you need to add the JDBC Profiling capability to the JDBC connection for the data source.

Before you begin

Required permissions

You have a global role that has the Manage connections and capabilities global permission, for example, Edge integration engineer.

Steps

  1. Open an Edge site.
    1. On the main toolbar, click Products icon, and then click Cogwheel icon Settings.
      The Collibra settings page opens.
    2. In the tab pane, click Edge.
      The Sites tab opens and shows a table with an overview of the Edge sites.
    3. In the table, click the name of the Edge site whose status is Healthy.
      The Edge site page opens.
  2. In the Capabilities section, click Add capability.
    The Add capability page is shown.
  3. Select the JDBC Profiling capability template.
  4. Enter the required information.
    FieldDescriptionRequired

    Capability

    This section contains general information about the capability.

    Name

    The name of the Edge capability.

    Yes

    Description

    The description of the Edge capability.

    No

    Capability template

    The capability template. The value that you select in this field determines which sections appear on the page.

    Select the following Edge capability:

    JDBC Profiling

    Yes

    Connection

    This section contains information to connect to the data source.

    JDBC connection

    The connection to the data source.

    Yes

    Other Settings

    Others

    This section can contain additional capability properties.

    Warning Adding additional properties can have a significant impact on your Edge site. Only add or update them together with Collibra Support.

    Click Add propertyAdd Other Settings to add a property.
    The possible properties are: ClosedShow properties

    Note No validation is performed on the values you add.

    No

    General

    This section contains general information about logging.

    Debug

    An option to automatically send Edge infrastructure log files to Collibra Data Intelligence Platform. By default, this option is set to false.

    Note We highly recommend to only send Edge infrastructure log files to Collibra Data Intelligence Platform when you have issues with Edge. If you set it to true, it will automatically revert to false after 24h.

    For more information, go to logging.

    No

    Log level

    An option to determine the verbosity level of Catalog connector log files. By default, this option is set to No logging.

    No

  5. Click Create.
    The capability is added to the Edge site.
    The fields become read-only.

What's next?

You can now register a data source via Edge and profile and classify the data.